News & events

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016

Environment Canterbury welcomed the announcement by the Otago Regional Council allocating $273,000 for a programme targeting reduction of Bennett's wallaby

Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016

Canterbury farmers must show how they are going to mitigate or minimise environmental effects of their farm. Check out how we've been helping them do this.

Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016

Farmers have completed more than 2000 metres of stock proof fencing to protect biodiversity values on a mixed sheep and beef farm they own.

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016

Pest trapping, aerial weed monitoring, weta 'motels' and lizard habitats – some of the biodiversity projects students from Lincoln High School are working on.

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016

The co-governors of Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere welcomed the Government’s recent decisions on tuna (eel) stocks in the lake.

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016

Funding has been allocated to a wide range of worthy projects, which are already starting to show substantial benefits in terms of water quality.

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016

Environment Canterbury announced today that Plan Change 3 to the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan would be made operative from 8 September 2016.

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016

Environment Canterbury today welcomed the government’s goal for New Zealand to become predator free by 2050.

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016

Some of the smallest residents at the Orari Gorge got a helping hand thanks to a grant from the zone committee’s Immediate Steps biodiversity fund.

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016

Barrhill farmer Malcolm Cairns says the Farm Environment Plan process provides farmers with practical tools to improve both environmental and economic outcomes.